{"id":2821,"date":"2007-04-02T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2007-04-02T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T12:35:00","slug":"discovery-of-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of the self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Vernon writes interestingly about modern isolation and depression: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markvernon.com\/friendshiponline\/dotclear\/index.php?2007\/04\/02\/565-life-without-feasting-and-friends\">&#8220;The &#8216;English Malady&#8217; &#8211; in short, depression &#8211; emerged as an epidemic of melancholy around 1600. Its genesis was intimately connected to the emergence of the self as an isolated, if self-possessed, individual (indeed, &#8216;self&#8217; as a noun, as opposed to a reflexive word, first came into use about the same time)&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I remain suspicious of evangelical theology &#8211; too much &#8216;self&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Vernon writes interestingly about modern isolation and depression: &#8220;The &#8216;English Malady&#8217; &#8211; in short, depression &#8211; emerged as an epidemic of melancholy around 1600. Its genesis was intimately connected to the emergence of the self as an isolated, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Jv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}